List of Things to Do in New York City

  1. Tango with Basquiat’s ghost
  2. Eat pizza with a pigeon below West 4th Street, where the rats grow old, and swap stories of all the times we’ve fallen in love
  3. Grow a garden of nasturtiums on a rooftop belonging to someone I’ve never met before
  4. Learn Spanish
  5. Learn French
  6. Dig a hole somewhere in Prospect Park and plant love poems
  7. Crash a movie set
  8. Go to the library and read as many books as I can in one day
  9. Fall asleep beneath a cloud shaped as Manhattan
  10. Greenwood Cemetery. Find Basquiat. Dance with him one more time